09/2013 - Santo Domingo Guide 2013, DR1 and Minister of Tourism.

[MrHappy]

Thanks, I didn't know about the Feria Ganadera.

There was also an excellent steakhouse in the Feria Ganadera in the back area, but not sure if it's still there. It was owned by one of the ranchers. I've eaten there dozens of times.

In fact, I'm overdue for a visit!!

[Jao]

There was also an excellent steakhouse in the Feria Ganadera in the back area, but not sure if it's still there. It was owned by one of the ranchers. I've eaten there dozens of times.

In fact, I'm overdue for a visit!!

Thanks for the tip it gets excellent reviews.

[Jao]

There was also an excellent steakhouse in the Feria Ganadera in the back area, but not sure if it's still there. It was owned by one of the ranchers. I've eaten there dozens of times.

In fact, I'm overdue for a visit!!

Asador de Antonio gets good reviews. Owner of Galiano Cigars, his cousin is the owner of Asador de Antonio (quiet location in La Esperilla, Santo Domingo).

https://es.foursquare.com/v/asador-d...f1526e3/photos

https://twitter.com/GalianoCigars

http://www.asadordeantonio.com/

Nice buildings and apartments in La Esperilla, also a large Mormon Church and the Music Conservatory. https://foursquare.com/v/conservator...d2fdb35/photos

Plaza Esperilla is on Ave. Mexico (also called something like Ave. Castellano west of Ave. Maximo Gomez), near UNAPEC University, students from the University visit the plaza in the evening.

[DMV]

Trujillo Mansion on the beach in San Cristóbal? http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=800288

El Castillo del Cerro, http://books.google.com/books?id=84e...public&f=false

Happy isn't this the place we stopped when we went to Playa Najayo?

[Jao]

With the "Beds", Zona Colonial, El Conde, near the Art College.

https://foursquare.com/v/segafredo-c...c0129e3/photos

[DMV]

With the "Beds", Zona Colonial, El Conde, near the Art College.

https://foursquare.com/v/segafredo-c...c0129e3/photos

Nice place. I had a birthday party in there one year.

[Jao]

Nice place. I had a birthday party in there one year.

Pretty chicas there some nights. Getting served drinks on trays while you lounge on a bed with amigas, can be relaxing.

[MrHappy]

Happy isn't this the place we stopped when we went to Playa Najayo?

Yeah. The one up on the hill. There's another one next to the old sugar mill that's a little smaller and in better condition. It even has a pool (in pretty bad shape)

There's also another one in San Cristobal called the casa de caoba, that was a cement frame and the rest made primarily of Mahogany. It wasn't a particularly nice looking house, and is an empty shell now. It was his favorite house in San Cristobal, (he was coming from there the night he was assassinated).

The legend about the house on the hill (el castillo del Cerro) in San Cristobal has it that Trujillo had it built, and when he saw it, didn't like it. He disliked it so much, it's said he never spent a single night there. I think it's been converted to a military training school, or an elementary school. I'm not sure.

[Jao]

Yeah. The one up on the hill. There's another one next to the old sugar mill that's a little smaller and in better condition. It even has a pool (in pretty bad shape)

There's also another one in San Cristobal called the casa de caoba, that was a cement frame and the rest made primarily of Mahogany. It wasn't a particularly nice looking house, and is an empty shell now. It was his favorite house in San Cristobal, (he was coming from there the night he was assassinated).

The legend about the house on the hill (el castillo del Cerro) in San Cristobal has it that Trujillo had it built, and when he saw it, didn't like it. He disliked it so much, it's said he never spent a single night there. I think it's been converted to a military training school, or an elementary school. I'm not sure.

"On May 30, 1961 the dictator in the Dominican Republic, Rafael Trujillo was shot. We hear from 3 people who remember that day, including one of the men who shot him."

Audio: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00gty7v

[Jao]

Doors open to all.

https://foursquare.com/v/club-libane...abb471c/photos

http://www.tumedio.net/2014/05/gala-...ival-2014.html

[Jao]

Medical care, open 24/7, in Gazcue just about on Avenida Independencia, near Calle Vicini Burgos (very well lit street).

http://www.7dias.com.do/sociedad/201...6#.U3adNSi9aaM

http://clinicaabreu.com.do/

[Jao]

Nice place. I had a birthday party in there one year.

Jazz Dominican, May 17, 2014, Plaza España, Zona Colonial, free.

http://elnacional.com.do/lanzaran-se...ro-dominicano/

Daily events on Twitter: https://twitter.com/QueHacerHoyRD

[YOLO]

This is an amazing thread Jao. Thanks for all the work you've put into it

[Jao]

This is an amazing thread Jao. Thanks for all the work you've put into it

Gracias.

Thanks to you (i.e. big booty pool party in Santo Domingo) and other members of this forum, I learn a lot.

[Jao]

This is an amazing thread Jao. Thanks for all the work you've put into it

Stays open late, casino adjacent has some cuties (workers and players), secure parking lot. I have had fun times in Pure (before it was called Copa). Crazy lap dance there I got from an amiga, last trip March 2014.

Booty at the 4 minute mark:

[Jao]

Telemicro is a television station with offices on the opposite side of Park Independencia, from the beginning of El Conde (Paco's Cafe there) and Zona Colonial.

Stage set up on the Malecon at Avenida Maximo Gomez (adjacent to Plaza Güibia), between the Renaissance Jaragua Hotel and the Hilton Hotel.

[Jao]

Malecon, Santo Domingo.

[Jao]

Adjacent to Plaza Güibia, El Malecon.

[Jao]

Supermarket, Department Store, hot food, fast food, cell phone shops, banks and Western Union. Line 2 of the Santo Domingo Subway can get you closer. Large selection of French wine. In the northern part of Santo Domingo (will pass if you take highway in the direction of Santiago). Free parking. https://foursquare.com/v/carrefour/4...d4d2de3/photos

Song by Pharrell Williams;

[Jao]

Song by Pharrell Williams.

Crowne Plaza Hotel is the former Intercontinental V Centenario Hotel (still part of IHG Group, new Intercontinental Hotel going up adjacent to Plaza Acropolis on Avenida Winston Churchill). One of the bartenders at the Crowne Plaza Hotel is from Cali, Colombia (he has invited me to visit Cali with him. One of the managers at Lulú Tasting Bar in Zona Colonial is from Bogota, Colombia, very nice guy).

Day and weekly passes available for the pool and the gym at the Crowne Plaza Hotel (also a salon with massage). Daily rate for the pool, much cheaper with a weekly pass.

I have met fellow Mongers at the lobby bar and taken them around in Santo Domingo. Also saw a SUV with a Haiti license plate pull up and its seems the occupants where staying at the Crowne Plaza Hotel.